He is collecting memories, and ghosts

Ouch. That bit hurt. I never let go of the contact details of the people who are gone either, digital ghosts. Patrick Roche performing “Siri: A Coping Mechanism” at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

The internets seem to be going mad for his other poem/perfomance 21, which is also great but not so many feels, I’m not sure why. Sometimes something is too close to your experience that rather than resonating it’s like ‘err, yeah? I know?’. :-/ (21 video via Pete Chvany)